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Quickbooks Online: Setup

QuickBooks Online is a cloud-based accounting solution, enabling users to access and maintain their business finances from anywhere with an internet connection.

Once the add-on is activated in your Checkfront account, bookings and transactions will automatically sync with QuickBooks Online, allowing you to track reservations and reconcile invoices faster than ever before.

QuickBooks Online is a third-party add-on with a monthly subscription fee. This fee is paid directly to QuickBooks and there are no additional fees for usage with Checkfront.

Setup

To activate the QuickBooks Online add-on in your Checkfront account, go to Manage > Add-ons in your main menu. Locate the QuickBooks Online tile, hover over it with your cursor and click the Setup button.

If you're not already signed in to your QuickBooks Online account, you will see the following pop-up window appear, asking you to do so.

If you are already signed in, or once you've signed in through the aforementioned pop-up window, you will see the following pop-up window asking for Intuit's permission to securely share data with Checkfront.

You will need to click Authorize in order to continue. Once you've done that, you'll see another pop-up window appear. This time, Checkfront is asking your permission to receive information from Intuit.

Again, you must click Authorize to continue. Just when you thought you were done with the pop-up windows... Yes, there's another one. This is a Checkfront pop-up, asking for permission to grant access to QuickBooks Online.

Click Allow, finalizing the add-on activation. The final step is then to configure the default settings for everyday use of the add-on.

Default Sales Item:

This is an item from your Quickbooks Online products and services which will be used as your default sales item.

Default Sales Tax:

If you have configured any sales taxes in your QuickBooks Online account, they will automatically sync with Checkfront and appear in this drop-down menu. Simply choose the default sales tax you would like to use for your bookings.

Create Invoice On:

Any custom and system statuses you have created in your Checkfront account will be available through this menu. When making a selection, you are choosing the status of a booking for which you wish an invoice in QuickBooks Online to be created.

Options:

If you would like to suspend the synchronization of transactions between Checkfront and QuickBooks Online, choose this option from the drop-down menu.

Status:

Shows the current connection status to QuickBooks Online. If all is well, this should read "Connected to Checkfront Inc." When ready, click Update to complete the configuration.

Checkfront Tip: Important!

When initially configured in Checkfront, the QuickBooks API creates an access token to authorize the connection between the two apps. This token remains active for one year, after which, access will be discontinued. Unfortunately, this will happen without warning as there is no way to let a user know ahead of time that the access token is about to expire.

When it does expire, all you have to do is reauthorize the connection. To do this, simply go back to the add-on modal at Manage > Add-ons in your main menu. Locate the QuickBooks Online tile, hover over it with your cursor, and click the Setup button.

You will see a label to let you know the add-on is disconnected (highlighted in yellow below)

Simply click on the Connect to QuickBooks button to go through the steps listed earlier and authorize the connection.

To avoid any missed invoices in QuickBooks, it might be a good idea to create an entry in your third-party calendar/diary to disconnect/reconnect the add-on a few days before the access token expires (one year from initial add-on activation).